Here's a step by step screenshot tutorial from Google on how to get gmail with Pidgin with Jabber:
How do I configure Pidgin for Google Talk? BTW Jabber.org is up & running again. Quote:
Originally Posted by MRiGnS  I do, I converted almost all my friends to jabber as they were almost exclusively using pidgin anyway and all major german e-mail providers get you a jabber account together with your email which support most of the features xmpp has to offer. |
Got some of by friends to convert to Pidgin/Jabber. Gonna' try to get all of them to use it.